From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 15:25:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C22637B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:25:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from m315-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com ([62.252.9.59]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20001031232527.OTTM5562.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@m315-mp1-cvx1b.gui.ntl.com>; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:25:27 +0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:27:53 +0000 (GMT) From: George Reid X-Sender: geeorgy@sobek.nevernet.net To: George Reid Cc: leoric@home.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permission problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, George Reid (i.e. me) wrote: > That is the default permission for the kernel. That alone does not prevent > you moving/deleting the kernel file. The file attributes are preventing > you from doing this. > > You need to do: chflags noschg first. Read man chflags(1). Semantic correction: s/attribute/flag/ G --- "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message